The error message “read_excel() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘encoding'” means that the function read_excel() is being called with an unsupported argument called ‘encoding’.
The read_excel() function is a part of the pandas library in Python, used for reading data from excel files. It allows various parameters to manipulate the reading behavior, but ‘encoding’ is not one of the supported arguments.
To resolve this error, you should remove or replace the ‘encoding’ argument in the function call to read_excel(). Here are a few examples to illustrate this:
Example 1:
import pandas as pd
# Incorrect usage with 'encoding' argument
data = pd.read_excel('data.xlsx', encoding='utf-8')
In this example, the ‘encoding’ argument is not supported by the read_excel() function. To fix it, remove the ‘encoding’ argument:
import pandas as pd
# Corrected usage without 'encoding' argument
data = pd.read_excel('data.xlsx')
Example 2:
import pandas as pd
# Incorrect usage with 'encoding' argument
data = pd.read_excel('data.xlsx', encoding='latin1')
Similarly, in this example, the ‘encoding’ argument should be removed because it is not supported. The correct usage without ‘encoding’ would be:
import pandas as pd
# Corrected usage without 'encoding' argument
data = pd.read_excel('data.xlsx')
By removing or replacing the ‘encoding’ argument, you can resolve the “read_excel() got an unexpected keyword argument ‘encoding'” error.